So I bought an LCD monitor....

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:45 pm

Actually got it cheaper from newegg.com than I could have at Best Buy with a 10% off coupon.

Anyway, tis a Samsung SyncMaster model 204B.

Beautiful monitor. I don't see a single dead pixel. Bright and there's no... fading, or whatever that graphical after-effect is.

I also love the auto-fit-image-to-screen-border functionality. That was a cool surprise.

Anyway, I have a boggle: there's a digital port and an analog port with which to connect it to your PC. Analog wire comes with one of those digital-port-converter jobbies.

When I plug the digital wire into my video card, no picture.

When I plug the analog wire w/converter into my video card, it works perfectly.

Any idea why the digital port isn't working? This is my first digital monitor... I am ignorant. Is there a WinXP setting or something that says "allow digital video input?" Hitting the digital/analog button on the monitor works... insomuch that when I set it for digital, no picture.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:00 pm

Was gonna suggest the digital/analog on your monitor.... other than that, i've never had any similar issue.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:01 pm

So, you are doing digital out on your video card, and digital in on the monitor, right?

Mine was always able to auto detect what was going on and just worked. A reboot was required if I changed things around while the PC was on though.

Zetleft · Post by **Zetleft** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:37 am

Never had to do any special settings on mine, have digital going into one computer and analog going into my little server computer. Hit the button to go from one to the other no problem. Only thing I can think off, firmware on the video card, video drivers or maybe the monitors drivers are required?